Film Review! Faces of Death 2

The review of Inseminoid and Humanoids from the Deep is still the entry on here that gets the most hits, partially due to the presence of a reference to the existence of tentacle hentai, the Japanese pornography of girls being raped by monsters with tentacles. I am eager for the opportunity to review Human Centipede 2, but that won’t be possible until Oct. 7th. Despite the hype surrounding that film, I doubt my review would even get the same amount of attention as a review of Inseminoid or Humanoids from the Deep that mentions animated tentacle rape porn. I’ve been looking for variations on the general subject of extreme horror that would match or surpass the Inseminoid/Humanoids from the Deep review, but there is something charmed about that review. For whatever reasons, people are constantly doing searches on-line on phrases like “monster rape”, “creature rape”, “rape and impregnated by monster”, and “anime woman raped by tentacle monsters”. I’ve tried other perversions, I really have. I just reviewed a documentary on snuff films to see if I could people looking for violent pornography or death films. There doesn’t appear to be the same fascination. I’m going to try once again though with one of the Faces of Death films.
The Faces of Death movies, I recall them well from my childhood during the 80’s. The first Faces of Death was banned in a number of countries, just as Human Centipede 2 has been banned in the U.K. today. I watched the first one in maybe 2009 or 2010. I’m not going to review it, because I’m not going to sit through that thing twice. What the Faces of Death films are essentially is mock “documentaries” about death (both among humans and animals) that are largely fraudulent, i.e., fake. Faces of Death 2 is even faker then the first one, which at least had real stock footage from the holocaust. There’s stock footage of whaling in Faces of Death 2. There’s a bunch of fake crime scene footage, fake avalanche footage, etc. I don’t really understand why these films were banned, being, so very clearly, largely fake. There’s no real character or plotline, it’s episodic fake sequences of deaths with a narrator talking over the film. That’s all it is.
These films were very popular in the 80’s. I’m not sure why. Faces of Death 2 is an old enough film that it still has background music that could almost be called disco. There’s a boxing match in there…it…it’s awful.
This is a truly awful film. I’m surprised that the Faces of Death series doesn’t make it onto “worst movies ever” lists more frequently. Faces of Death is some serious crap. It’s not that I’m offended by it. It’s that a child could figure out this footage is mostly fake. The only context in which this film could work might be a social event where everyone laughs at the movie. This is real bad movie night type stuff.

Here’s some good explication of the Faces of Death films-